Misconceptions About Men: Teenage Male Stereotypes

Misconceptions are formed when all of the stereotype a group has are closely related to a faulty image. Although, most groups do not have many misconceptions. Stereotypes, even the most exaggerated, are based off a small, even miniscule, truth. Contrary to stereotypes, misconceptions are completely untrue; they are basically rumors made up from the lack of perspective of the group in topic. Every group has them, nonetheless. Cowboys, for instance, are said to be manly men who are rough around all the edges with no trace and tenderness or sensitivity; Gretel Elrlich, however, knows that is not the case. In her article, About Men, Gretel Elrlich reveals the cowboys sensitivity when she states, “What we’ve interpreted as toughness-weathered skin, …show more content…
It is currently the 21st century so people are starting to believe that teenage fathers can be and are becoming adequate fathers. Teenage fathers are said to want to beat out the odds of being unfit fathers like most teen dads. There are hundreds of statistics on teenage fathers, both good and bad; people have given the teen fathers of today the benefit of the doubt and have given these dads a better name. People think these fathers will be be there for the children because these dads are fully there throughout the pregnancy of the mother. People have given these teenagers the benefit of the doubt because the fathers stay around for the first few months, because these teenage dads seem to try their best with the baby and the pregnancy, because these fathers genuinely seem to want to be apart of the child’s life. In the article The Characteristics and Circumstances of Teen Fathers: At the Birth of their First Child and Beyond one of the authors explains that he ran a survey and within these authors studies only eight percent of the teenage fathers were married to the mothers of the child. Even with such low numbers the people continue to have better names for teenage